Recent content by Alvin1957

Hello and I'm stunned. I don't recall ever before having met a graduate (even in disembodied electronic form) of the Church of St. Mattress School of Advanced Thinkology. I'll let all my colleagues know that our penchant for setting up experiments and analyzing the results and making...

Please do be careful this 4th. Come on over to the Dallas area, get inside the I-635 belt and take a deep breath or two...feel the headache? That is not the effect of clean air. Take a fish from the Trinity River for dinner. There is no telling what industrial crap will attack your liver...

Hello John, An interesting line of thinking here. All the technological advancement and golly-gee gizmo stuff need not have been abused and overused. It does seem like we're in a race between the abuse and overuse of our ingenuity and appetite (race to extinction) and using that same ingenuity...

I agree. I have a lot more confidence in the human race than I let on.

Hey gang, Interesting reading. I am afraid (I suspect that you know) that this is going to go nowhere useful. There is an endless supply of self-deluding, internally sort-of-consistent stories that people will tell you about why climate change, acidification of oceans, radionuclide decay...

Hello Reed, Just got one in. Please try direct purchase from Brooks on-line. Shipped from Italy. Best of luck.

I have to drink the zero calorie stuff...my waistline mandates it.

Same here. My bags are filled with Gatorade! Do have one of the silvery emergency blanket things if things get too bad and just have to hunker down and wait on help. It's not gotten that bad, yet.

I know what you mean about a black car. We took out the RV and I made the mistake of leaving the stabilizer bars in the sun for a few hours. Forgot to bring my thermal gloves. Made for a fine time trying to get the bars back on. Finally used a pair of my socks and that was still hot! For...

Hello from the Dallas area. Gets warm and humid here. Into low and mid 90's right now. We use the white, reflective sleeves, shirt and a reflective cap underneath the helmet. It should have an apron or skirt that covers your neck and ears. Also, get long shorts that come to just barely...

Hello there. I read something in some pop-psychology stuff (who know if true) that evolution-gone-wrong is at work here. Good news and no-threat information did not keep our ancestors from getting eaten by a leopard or stomped by a cape buffalo. Paying attention to the bad stuff is like...

Hello there. You might take a look at Pedaling Innovation products. On all my bikes. Very, very wide and long (front to back). Two sets of grub screws included. Size makes for easy placement of foot in almost any position but especially with arch over spindle.

Hello! The only time I've been to McKinney was to get my Subaru! Not too familiar with the area. I ride mostly between Grand Prairie, Duncanville and on toward Italy, Cleburne and Weatherford. Been down toward Austin and San Antonio a few times on group rides back pre-e-bike. This year I'm...

Hello from Dallas/Ft. Worth. Welcome to the world of ebikes! Slowly and surely seeing more e-bikes about. Rain is a bit of a bummer right now but it's Texas...it'll be gone in a few days and then back to riding. Be safe.

Hey there. Used to work in machine shop and hit similar problems. If you can get at the end of the bolt (if it passes all the way through the threaded female part), apply pressure to end of bolt (as though trying to push it back out) and turn counterclockwise (to loosen) VERY slowly...